26: 名無し募集中。。。 2016/01/14(木) 17:29:44.08 0.net
It has to be said that when you listen to Uchouten when you’re tired, those “wahoos!” are really irritating. (laughs) When you’re feeling good though, they make you fired-up.

30: 名無し募集中。。。 2016/01/14(木) 17:31:22.28 0.net
And with Uchouten, they literally start five seconds into the song. You have to be mentally prepared to listen to that song.

35: 名無し募集中。。。 2016/01/14(木) 17:36:17.43 0.net
So I was trying to figure out what the last Morning Musume “yahoo!” song is. I think the last single was either Pyokotora or Happy Daisakusen, and the last album song Waratte YOU. That’s quite a while ago…

36: 名無し募集中。。。 2016/01/14(木) 17:37:12.69 0.net
His vocals in Uchouten LOVE are a bit too much. Songs like Loving you Too much have just the right balance. He’s overdoing it in Uchouten LOVE.

89: 名無し募集中。。。 2016/01/14(木) 18:59:40.21 0.net
When talking about this subject and early S/mileage though, I’m reminded of Shortcut much more than Uchouten LOVE.

10: 名無し募集中。。。 2013/04/21(日) 11:04:52.77 0
He sings throughout the entirety of Ananashi, from beginning to end.

11: 名無し募集中。。。 2013/04/21(日) 11:05:11.89 0
I only just recently started listening to H!P and I was surprised to know Tsunku sang in their songs — he sounds so different it’s hard to believe it’s actually him.

38: 名無し募集中。。。 2013/04/21(日) 11:12:53.66 0>>11
If those male vocals sound kind of throaty and like a bit “transparent” — if that’s how you’d describe it — then that’s not him. There are two other males that regularly do chorus vocals aside from Tsunku.

48: 名無し募集中。。。 2013/04/21(日) 11:16:44.01 0>>38
Yeah, this was a person with a throaty voice. So that wasn’t Tsunku? Up until now I’d always been told it was Tsunku and I was just thinking to myself how that can’t possibly be true. So this is actually really helpful to hear. Thanks. I’m going to listen to all the songs linked in this thread and become able to tell Tsunku’s voice apart from the rest.

20: 名無し募集中。。。 2013/04/21(日) 11:06:56.72 0I borrowed Berryz’ 1st album from someone only to find out that it was pretty much just a Terada solo album.

41: 名無し募集中。。。 2013/04/21(日) 11:14:02.62 0
The guy appearing on many of the songs on that first album is not Tsunku but rather Takeuchi Hiroaki. You can’t in good consciousness call yourself a wota if you can’t even tell the two apart.

22: 名無し募集中。。。 2013/04/21(日) 11:08:31.53 0
Early Berryz and Taishisu was pretty much just a musical playground for Tsunku.

31: 名無し募集中。。。 2013/04/21(日) 11:11:17.53 0
I’m a newbie so I’m still very much clueless, but are those “waos!” and stuff in Brainstorming Tsunku?

44: 名無し募集中。。。 2013/04/21(日) 11:14:27.71 0
If you try to sing the Terada bits in Ananashi when you’re doing the song in karaoke, it’s really difficult to make it to the chorus unscathed.

45: 名無し募集中。。。 2013/04/21(日) 11:14:59.56 0I’m not sure which song this was, but I was reading the YouTube comments on something and I saw a foreigner going “why can I hear a male voice singing on this song?” (laughs)

68: 名無し募集中。。。 2013/04/21(日) 11:29:00.51 0At the end of the day, H!P really is all about whether you’re able to accept Tsunku or not.

72: 名無し募集中。。。 2013/04/21(日) 11:30:28.04 0
Try listening to Nanchuu Koi wo Yatteruu YOU KNOW? while having the headphone jack only halfway plugged in. Tsunku is literally all you can hear. It scared the crap out of me when I heard it. But I love it.

81: 名無し募集中。。。 2013/04/21(日) 11:56:00.03 0
U.M.E.D.Y. was the guy who did all the rapping bits starting with Renai Revolution. He can still be heard in recent songs even now, such as Watashi no Dekkai Hana and Loving you Too much. He’s pretty great.

78: 名無し募集中。。。 2013/04/21(日) 11:35:06.99 0
It’s not that I love Tsunku’s vocals or anything, but when I listen to those demo versions of his, that’s when I really get the strengths of that song, or like, what he was trying to go for with that song.

144: 名無し募集中。。。 2013/04/21(日) 15:06:39.69 0
I really wanted to hear Tsunku’s “wahoos!” when I bought the instrumental of Uchouten. I was so disappointed to find that it didn’t actually have his vocals on it…

145: 名無し募集中。。。 2013/04/21(日) 15:08:58.83 T
Those “wahoos!” are all actually just recycled from this song:

151: 名無し募集中。。。 2013/04/21(日) 17:14:14.30 0>>145
Wow, you’re right.

93: 名無し募集中。。。 2013/04/21(日) 12:31:39.80 0
Is Resonant Blue the only song Tsunku’s ever released his full demo version of?

95: 名無し募集中。。。 2013/04/21(日) 12:32:59.03 0
While they aren’t demo versions, he’s also covered several songs on his solo albums. I wish they’d include those Tsunku demo versions as a special bonus on the singles.

98: 名無し募集中。。。 2013/04/21(日) 12:34:49.55 0
I was surprised to hear how cool Terada’s version of Resonant Blue actually is.

99: 名無し募集中。。。 2013/04/21(日) 12:36:13.17 0
It might be that although we think we love the members of H!P — our moon — we might actually be in love with Tsunku — our sun.

49: 名無し募集中。。。 2013/04/21(日) 11:16:59.06 0
I simply can’t stop myself from laughing every time I listen to Gatamekira after a long break and I hear that “DARADDAATARA.”

138: 名無し募集中。。。 2013/04/21(日) 14:42:32.70 QI still remember laughing when Taishisu performed Gatamekira on Music Station and Terada made a special appearance just to do those “DARADDAARARA” bits live. I think that may be the only live appearance Tsunku has done with other H!P members where he actually sang.

110: 名無し募集中。。。 2013/04/21(日) 12:56:54.03 0
Terada should release a self-cover album already. Acchan and Umedy-san can do the backing vocals.

117: 名無し募集中。。。 2013/04/21(日) 13:05:17.60 0I want to become a cool guy like Tsunku when I grow up.

Henkka: Why the hell is Tsunku so damn lovable? I don’t get it. I feel like… Do you guys remember that great Minnie Riperton song? Lovin’ You? That’s how I feel. “Lovin’ you is easy cause you’re beautiful.” I want to accompany myself on the guitar as I sing that song to Tsunku. Especially because those lyrics are immediately followed by “makin’ love with you is all I wanna do.”

Uchouten Love isn’t that bad if you’re familiar with the genre. The wahoos are exactly the sort of “wahoos!” you’d hear in Japanese Eurobeat and parapara songs in the late ’90s and early 00s, I thought Tsunku pulled off that sound off flawlessly without ripping it off.

I know similar talk about releasing Tsunku demo albums has come up before, but I really like this one. Something like the Berryz Koubou Completion Box was largely duplicate material for fans, but six discs of “Tsunku Sings Berryz Koubou”? Yeah, I could find 9000 yen to put towards that.